Author: James

Quote: “The solution I found was to close down visual studio, go to “c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer”, rename the folder “Installer” to something else then run vs_installer.exe from the renamed folder.“

/r parameter tells CHKDSK to repair to find the bad sectors and try and recover the readable information.

/x parameter tells CHKDSK to dismount the drive before beginning the process.

If your drive is a boot disk (As in your main hard drive that contains your OS, after entered, a message will popup stating the CHKDSK can’t be done while the computer is using the drive. Select Yes to schedule the CHKDSK when a Restart of the computer is executed.

Restart your computer. The Scan and Repair will happen.

When complete, you can look at the log of your CHKDSK by bringing up the Event Viewer.

Click Windows Logs

Right Click Application and click Find…

Enter Chkdsk (Find looks at the Source column) and click the Find Next button.

If found, cancel out of the Find dialog box, and then read the log in the General Tab of the middle windows of the event viewer.

To create a text file of the actual log, do the following:

Click Start, and in the search box, type and then click Windows Powershell. Powershell will bring up a dialog box.

I struggled with this one and learned something that was not taught in the tutorial I took on MVC 5. The instructor did not mention that when you receive a model into your Save action (Controller) instead of your view model that is bound to your view, you have to name your variable the same name or at least with a small case as the first character as the model class name. If you follow this rule, the model state will be true and you will get your data.

Do this if you want to receive just the model of your ViewModel you bound to your view and sent back to the controller:

public ActionResult Save(Customer Customer)

or do this if you want to receive the entire ViewModel you bound to your view and sent back to the controller:

public ActionResult Save(CustomerFormViewModel viewModel)
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Lastly, if you choose to receive back the entire viewModel, you can call your ViewModel variable whatever you want, but NOT when receiving back just the model.

There may be many ways to save the last album played on the Zune, but here is one way.
1) Pick an album, pick a song, and start playing the song by pressing the center black button. Let the song play for 5 seconds.
2) Press the play/pause button to pause the song for 5 seconds.
3) Press the play/pause button to resume the song for 5 seconds.
4) Press the play/pause button to pause the song for 5 seconds.
5) Press and HOLD the play/pause until the Zune goes to sleep and then count 5 seconds.
6) Press the play/pause button to turn the Zune back on.
7) Keep pressing the center black button until it plays a song from the same album. Let the song play for 5 seconds.
8) Press the play/pause button to pause the song for 5 seconds.
9) Hold down the Left button and the down button (outer black circle) until it powers off.
10) After 5 seconds, reboot the Zune.

How to stop syncing history and get rid of history on Google Server so it stops syncing between computers even though you change your settings to say not to sync history.

1) Go into each Google Chrome Settings an change your sync settings to stop syncing History. You can also choose not to sync passwords, open tabs, and credit card information.
2) Below the sync settings, click ‘Personalize Google Services’. Uncheck the checkbox next to ‘Include Chrome browsing history and activity from websites and apps that use Google services’. In the popup, click the ‘PAUSE’ link.
3) Below the checkbox on the syncing page, click ‘Manage Activity’. Click ‘Delete Activity by’ on the left. Click the drop-down below ‘Delete by Date’ and choose ‘All time’ then click Delete, and then click ‘DELETE’ again.
4) Back to the Chrome sync page, below ‘Personalize Google Services’, click ‘Manage synced data on Google Dashboard’. Scroll down and click the button, “RESET SYNC’.
5) In Chrome, go to your settings/History and clear all browsing data.
6) Close Chrome on each computer and exit out of the chrome icon in the system tray if it is there to stop the server.
​7​​​) ​Search for the following folder C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default for a file called Web Data on each computer and delete it.
8) Run CCleaner on each computer to clean up Google Chrome.
9) Restart Google Chrome on each computer and log back in to start syncing again.

The Web Data should be gone or at least a new one will begin that does not contain your entire history.